"Thus kindly I scatter" That's what was etched into the grave of Summer Rose.
Next to the gravesite was a stack of pelican cases and a woman sitting around 5'11 dressed in a black cloak with crimson accents and a "low profile" gray rose emblem embroidered on the back, she wore black cargos with a pair of steel towed combat boots with a red undershirt and a beat-up black leather jacket with red lining and had a what appeared to be an old torn up orange cloth wrapped around the right arm of the jacket.
This woman was Ruby Rose. Daughter of Summer Rose. Ruby as of now was in her early twenties and was emotionally broken.
Her team?
Gone.
Her family?
Gone.
The kingdoms?
Gone.
Ruby Rose was truly the last person alive Remnant.
Four years ago when Ruby was 18, her and the rest of team RWBY along with what was left of team JNPR, Qrow, and Oscar were able to retrieve the relic of destruction after the literal fall of Atlus which regrettably led to the collapse of Mantal.
Everyone attempted to combat Salem at once hoping that it be enough to make an opening. The sword's power to destroy anything that the Gods deemed so, would be enough to put an end to her for good.
On the brink with her followers killed and her home in tatters. Salem, in a last-ditch effort, was able to mimic the attack that wiped out humanity the first time however, it was far from perfect, it was just a shoddy replica.
The attack had one major flaw, it used the majority of Salem's magic and was fueled by grim. Ruby saw the opportunity of a hundred lifetimes right before her silver eyes, her predecessors have never thought that they themselves would get this close, let alone the thought of actually winning.
Ruby used everything that she had learned about her eyes to completely shield herself and weaken Salem at the same time. Ruby was able to pierce Salem's heart with the relic, ending her immortal life for good. The strain her eyes put on her after using them caused her to pass out.
"Miss Rose!" Her eyes snapped open in surprise as she was startled awake and was quick to recognize the voice of her former headmaster.
"What Ozpin?" She started getting up, still in pain from the massive headache. She scanned around the room for Oscar which was no were to be found.
"Ruby, I'm sorry." He replied, Ruby still searching for her friends was confused at to where the voice was coming from.
"Where is everyone Oz?"
There was complete silence. Ruby was piecing it together but was in utter denial.
"Ruby deep down you know the answer to that." He said sorrowfully. Ruby started to panic a little.
"D-Don't joke about that, where's Oscar? where are you?" She asked already knowing the answer to her question.
"You know what I'm going to say." Silence followed after his sentence.
"T-This can't be happening, I-I don't know what to do." She put her head into her palms. After a long silence an idea formed out of terror and panic.
"Oz", she whispered trying to hold back her tears. "Do you think we can use the lamp one more time to see how to fix this?" her mind was racing, trying to process the inevitable despair setting in.
"I don't know if this can be fixed Ruby." After a slight pause Ruby reached for the lamp that she had retrieved from Cinder's corpse, attached to her belt only to find out that she couldn't move her arm toward the lamp any further.
"I can't let you do that Ruby, not right now, we were lucky enough to re-obtain it with its last question intact. We only have that one more question. If we use it now we have to wait for the next 100 years and sadly we both won't live that long. After this last question, we will have exhausted all other options." Ruby was shell shocked she couldn't think straight and she knew that.
She moved towards Yang's last seen position, just to find a pile of clothes. she rummaged through the pile slightly and gripped Yang's scarf tightly.
"What about Maria? Maybe she can help or-"
"RUBY STOP! WE ARE THE ONLY ONES LEFT!" It was harsh but it was necessary to snap her out of the hellish cycle of thoughts she was having.
"Take a break, for now, all you can do right now is morn, rest up and leave the rest up to me for now." Ozpin replied in a calming tone of voice as she slipped into unconsciousness